Search Results: Titles starting with C from Govi Rare Books LLC

211x150 mm. 8 unnumbered leaves, of which the last is a blank. Sewn but unbound, preserved in a modern cloth slipcase. On the first leaf recto is the following title written by a later hand: "Carmina Croti ad Sanvitalem sup[er] laubibus Iulij Cesaris Pompei & alior[um] proceru[m] Romanor[um] pulcherrima ac videnda". The rest of the manuscript is written by a single, very elegant early 16th-century hand. On the first leaf verso is the dedication "Bartholmaeus Crotus ad Hieronymum Sanvitalem Salae Principem", followed by four verses and a calligraphic ornament. Watermark: lily with double trefoil and the letter 'M' below. Slightly uniformly browned (more strongly on the first and last leaf), paper loss of about 4x2 mm to the outer margin of all leaves not affecting the text, another loss to the outer upper corner of the first leaf not affecting the text.
This is an apparently unpublished and unknown collection of short epigrams dedicated to Girolamo I Sanvitale, Count of Sala, son of Niccolò Maria… Read More

Six parts in one volume, 4to (220x160 mm); early 19th century half-calf, richly gilt decorated spine with gilt title on red morocco label; (20), 64, (2 blank), (6), 65-203, (3 blank), (6), 205-353, (3 blank), (6), 357-538, (2 blank), (4), 541-583, (1 blank), (6), 585-729, (25) pp. Lacking 2 blank leaves (before pp. 357 and 585). At the beginning of the volume are wrongly bound (12) leaves of index which do not belong to this edition. Every part opens with a separate title-page bearing the printer's device. Part 2, 3, 4 are dated 1660, while parts 1, 5, 6 are dated 1661. With decorated initials, head- and end-pieces. With the author's portrait on l. ++4v engraved by Giovanni Giorgi and many diagrams in the text. Contemporary ownership's inscription on the second front fly-leaf: "Hic liber est Ippoliti de [not readable]. A few gatherings browned, some marginal foxing, but a very good, crisp copy.SECOND GREATLY ENLARGED EDITION. The work is based on Bérigard's lectures at the University of Pisa.… Read More